A Medieval Feast By: Aliki

Book Title: A Medieval Feast

Author: Aliki

Illustrator: Aliki

Genre: Historical Fiction

Summary: A book about all the necessary preparations of hosting a feast and party in medieval times

ELA Content Standard 1: Grade 3, Key Ideas and Details #1- Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, explicitly using the text as the basis for the answers.

How it Connects:This book is very informative but also very vocab heavy with words that students may struggle with, asking and answering questions can help clarify for easy understanding

ELA Content Standard 2: Grade 3, Key Ideas and Details #2- Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.

How it Connects: Again, with the help in vocab, the students can depict the main idea as a whole

3 Tiers of  Vocab: 1) castle 2) knights, medieval 3) provisions  

How Children Use Book: Centers

Meets Needs: Gifted students can expand their vocab and try to indicate what the words mean based on context clues